pittmike wrote:
I get it. A guy hangs out with you guys at a bar for a bulls game and he is all good.
well hey man, when you actually get to hang out with the person and not the brand/product/show it's a whole different ballgame and thus you get an insight into the person bloviating into the microphone and usually that person doesn't live up to the wizard-of-oz style magnanimous buildup that their "radio persona" might give you and they typically turn out to be pretty cool guys who don't afraid of their great unwashed audience (well except for amattacola; you get the vibe/aura from him that he's kind of pretty much a really big deal and you're annoying him by seeking an audience with his excellency. oh wait nevermind he's "drinky" and thus just one of the guys at the bar, how soon i forget...)
i never really had any strong throughts about hrrrbbbb either way, but having a chance to have hung out with him at a bulls game talking buckets/score/life while we were watching the game, yeah he's a good dude and thus he's gonna always have the "yeah i got to hang with him once and he's a good dude" label hanging over him for the rest of his life. he's personable and thoughtful (or in b&bspeak: he has sports/thoughts) and easy to get along with. you could do a hell of a lot worse than letting him develop his on-air skills via some dead-ass/fill-in shifts via weeknights/weekends.
not to mention that sunday afternoon ~10-2/ish slot is the one that i affectionately refer to as "radio siberia." you're way the hell out there doing your thing @ a time where most people 1) horribly hung-over/half-asleep/vociferously-lazy and they're at church, at brunch, or some sort of social function and thus they're not likely to sit there and listen to you for anything longer than ~30mins, whereas with your typical "prime time" sports show people are either at work or having a day off (on the links or otherwise) and thus are more prone to listening to your show/s longform, so they're going to ease into the "vibe" and "feel"of it all as opposed to having a small sample size of cafeteria/style listening.
so yeah, on those sunday shifts you're only going to hear ~15-20mins at a time and since they're one step away from flipping the switch to some guy with a HARRRRRRIBLE boston/NYC/east-coast accent on * jingle * CBS SPORTS RAY-DEEEEEEEE-OHHHHHHHHHHHH, yeah, it doesn't really matter who you have hosting as long as they're local and they have a pulse (which automatically excludes steven berger (live on the score) right there) then you're doing alright.
and if that's the state of mind, well what the hell why not hrrrbbbb and pals? if they bring over any of that #AskHerb stuff (which i reckon they'd have to pay to license from THE LAWRENCE HOLMES SHOW COLON AKA THE PEOPLE'S SHOW) then it's all the better, because really there's only everything to gain and nothing to lose when you're dealing with radio siberia. if hrrrbbbb can do something memorable to catch the attention of the sporadic listeners and/or his bosses and then set himself up for better shifts/career/$$$/life/etc, then god bless him and do ya thang miister e-surr-nall. or shit what's his name on here? something about palehose or at least whitesox related, right?
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